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HIP HOP HR ON! hmmm 5K 10pm run was NOT approved by the honey!

Posted June 12, 2009 * Comments(18)

LAKERS WON BABY!!!!! OH YAY!!! OUR FISHER TOOK IT INTO OVERTIME WITH A BEAUTIFUL 3 POINTER AND WE WON.  3 GAMES DOWN & 1 TO GO!

My night was not the best but I made the most of it.  I come home to some bad news, PLAN B for my run went out the door.  We watched the Lakers beat the Magic and man I jumped so high into my honey’s open arm when Fisher made that 3 Point shot with 10 sec. to go.

PLAN C  for a gym tredmill run  went out the door because the Lexus wouldn’t start and Rod couldn’t save my parking spot.  If he didn’t I won’t leave in the other car.

So I said, honey, can I go for a run on the streets??   He knows he can’t stop me from going EVEN if he wants to.

I have to tell you the first mile was hard again.  What’s worse is once I left the busy market area and got into the residential area there was less street lamps.  Blaithin, you would be very proud of me!!! Only thing I was like dang, I’m not sweating because it’s very cool outside, but the moment I came in I was drenched in sweat.  WHOO HOOO!!

Yep, I turned my a$$ around right quick for fear of safety.  All in all I only did a 5K run.

Tomorrow  I plan on visiting an old Kickboxing instructor, do her class and then try my hands at Hip Hop.  YIKES!!! I Will DIE!! I have to left feet!!!!

Food wise I’m on it!!! WHOO HOOOO!!! Got all my fruits, veggies, water, protein, sodium, fat and carbs in check!!

$1900 a month What can one do with $$$ like that? I can’t wait to get off work

Posted June 9, 2009 * Comments(21)

Well if you live in Cali, that’s one month of RENT for ya!! Yep, we just signed on our new lease for the next year. Went up to $1900 per month. For 1100 sq feet, 2 bedroom one bath, yay - it hurts! The perks? I live in a gated complex with a pool literally right outside my front door. I am 5 minutes away from Disney. So close I can hear the fireworks every single night. I’m 10 minutes away from Newport Beach, 45 min from LA, 1 hr or so from San Diego, 2 hrs from the mountains, 4 hours from Vegas.

My work is 5 minutes by freeway. When I start running from work again when it’s not so sunny it’s a 5 mile run straight home. There are a lot of perks but to shell out that much money for no land (thinking of you Kerstin and your 10 acres - I’m jealous) but a tiny backyard it’s a ton of money to pay for so little. That’s why I have to roommate with my younger brothers. They better be paying their portion. No way am I paying this much a month all by myself!
I decided not to move out and leave the fam bam behind. My heart wouldn’t let me. On top of that, my mom is very sick with cancer; as much as we fight, she is still ma.

The dreams of owning my own home out here even in this economic downturn, is only that a dream for most of us out here. Unless you make a six figure income, which I’m no where near, I can’t afford a mortgage. Still wondering how my girlfriend is doing with her monthly $4000 mortgage on an old home she bought right before the market bust?

Anyhooooo!!!!! Walking at lunche and breaks - yay!!! And I can’t wait to get a short run in before Pilate’s and Interval weights training. Have to go back to eating.

Oh - how evil - my boss is on a business trip and my peeps bring in donut. I had a few bites.

It’s 5:37 am and I can’t sleep……….4.45 mile run is on the menu

Posted May 27, 2009 * Comments(27)

Coming from a very abusive relationship with the ex, including let’s see -physical violence, like one day we fought and he used his Timberland’s to grind me into the ground. Ummmm roommate calls the cops and I cover it up.  Oh, the marks were there for three days; then there’s the non communication amongst us, he smokes his weed, goes out with his friends, screws other women then comes home to me………………..etc. leaves little room for finding true love with a good man.

Now - to my prince!  Can I call  him that? LOL I love him so much!!!  Now this man, would want to hurt any man who even dares try to move a piece of hair on my head.  He is my bodyguard, my baby!! He is my lover, my best friend and he loves me with every once in his body!!  I have to say, this weekend we reconnected on a whole new level.  Just me relaxing more and learning to let stress go, live in the moment, DRAMA LESS - dawg - gotta throw that in yah know CUZZ some people wants to bring it my way - that’s right!!  With all that, we just took our emotional and mental relationship to a  whole new level.  We went, got a room in LA and just spend time being a happy couple.

I LOVES IT!!!!  Sometimes I pinch myself to make sure it’s all real.  Like, dang, that man is real!!! Fo’ sho’!~!!   Gotta throw a  little somethin’ somethin’ in. LOL

Anyhow, no one is gonna slow my roll, not in life, not anywhere.  Oh yah, saw “tough love” mentioned a few times, yah I give tough love because I care.  Why I put it in my recruitment - because sugar coating anything will not help an individual get to the next level.  NEXT ISSUE PLEASE!!

I loved Tuesday night!!!  I got in my own weights session in with the BOSU, ran 1 mile at 9:10, walked at a 10.0 incline for a mile, then I just did a SET class for  an hour.  Set combines step and weights.  Because it’s I did 60 min of weights already, I used very very light weights and focus more on cardio.

Just for LOL, gotta share with you I love love sunflower seeds.  It takes forever to eat and I love cracking them and eating them and very healthy too………. ‘cept one day Rod was watching me and he said I spits my shells like a dude! HEHE  It’s all good.  I’m a tomboy and I likes it like that.  Can’t change me there!!!

AND THIS MORNING -  RIGHT NOW 5:37 AM I AM STRAPPED AND READY FOR A 4.45 MILES OUTSIDE!!!! BRB!!!!  Blaithin, catch you in a bit.

Update for me: YEP YEP, got 1 mile of warm up and cool down in. RAN THE FULLL 3.4 MILES WITH EASE! :)